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How worried—or excited—should we be about AI? Recode Media with Peter Kafka

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Scaling the Wrong Technology: The Problem with Unreliable and Untruthful Advancements

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  • Dirigibles were initially thought to be superior to airplanes until the Hindenburg disaster proved otherwise
  • Scaling an unreliable technology can pose problems for applications that require truthfulness and trustworthiness
  • GPT's strength lies in making surrealist prose, but not in applications where cost of error is high and reliability is important
  • The speaker has been warning about the hallucination problem in AI for 30 years but it remains unsolved

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